A growing number of legal experts and lawmakers have called Saturday’s bombing of Venezuela and the abduction of Maduro illegal under both international law and the U.S. Constitution.
Mere hours before the U.S. bombed Venezuela on Saturday, Trump threatened to attack Iran over its violent crackdowns on protesters, writing on social media that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go.”
And since carrying out the Venezuela raid, the Trump administration has taken aim at Cuba and Colombia, hinted at intervention in Mexico, renewed annexation aspirations in Greenland, and reiterated threats to Iran.
Here’s what the administration is saying about some of the other nations where they’re threatening military action, annexation, or regime change.
Venezuela “If they don’t behave, we will do a second strike,” Trump said.
In a televised speech hours after Saturday’s attack, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez criticized the attack as “barbaric” and “illegal” and called for the release of Maduro, who she called the country’s rightful leader. She vowed to “defend our natural resources” and said that Venezuela “will never return to being the colony of another empire.”
Rodríguez’s defiance seemingly undermined Trump’s statements that the U.S. would “run the country” and that Rodríguez is “willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again.” Trump did not take her comments lightly and told The Atlantic on Sunday, “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
Cuba During the post-Venezuela attack press conference on Saturday, Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio took turns answering a reporter’s question on Cuba, which has long shared close ties with Venezuela. Trump called Cuba “a failing nation” and that Cuba was “very similar” to Venezuela “in the sense that we wanna help the people in Cuba.” Rubio meanwhile took more direct aim at the Cuban government.
“If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least, a little bit,” he said.
The following day, Rubio, a longtime opponent of the Cuban government and an anti-Communist child of Cuban immigrants, further hinted at possible military action in Cuba during an appearance on NBC News.
Columbia When NewsNation’s Libbey Dean asked Trump aboard Air Force One on Sunday whether a military operation focusing on Colombia was coming, the president said, “Sounds good to me.”
Trump also told reporters on Air Force One that Colombia was being “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,” referring to Petro. “He’s not going to be doing it for very long,” Trump added.
Mexico During the wide-ranging Air Force One meeting on Sunday, Trump threatened Mexico. “Mexico has to get their act together because they’re pouring through Mexico,” he said, referring to the drug trade, and claimed that “the cartels are running Mexico.” Since his first term, Trump has floated the idea of attacking Mexico’s drug cartels. In April, reports surfaced that the administration had been seriously considering drone strikes in Mexico.
“We’re going to have to do something,” Trump said on Sunday. “We’d love Mexico to do it, they’re capable of doing it, but unfortunately the cartels are very strong in Mexico.”
Greenland Trump teased future action to seize Greenland on Sunday. “We’ll worry about Greenland in about two months,” he told reporters, later specifying he meant 20 days. “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it.”
When a reporter asked how he would justify a claim to Greenland, Trump said he didn’t want to talk about Greenland, despite having just offered a lengthy comment on Greenland. “I’ll just say this … the European Union needs us to have it, and they know that,” the president said.
Iran “If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Thursday. “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
Around the time Trump made the statement, security forces had killed at least seven people at the rallies, according to Iranian authorities. In the days since, the death toll has risen to at least 19 people, with some estimates as high as 29.
In a vacuum, Trump’s comments appeared to stand in defense of the human rights of Iranian protesters facing brutal government repression. But the Trump administration’s heavy-handed response to protesters in the U.S. highlighted the stark contradiction between the president’s rhetoric abroad and actions.
This hypocrisy was quickly pointed out by the very Iranian leaders deploying violence against their own citizens. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi used Trump’s words to justify his own regime’s brutal crackdown. “Given President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard within U.S. borders, he of all people should know that criminal attacks on public property cannot be tolerated,” he wrote.
Nobel peace prize please. 🫱
We literally invaded a country where a person got one so maybe we will steal that too.
What if all the countries that he threatens team up and take the US down?
Draft dodgers shouldn’t be able to tell soldiers what to do. Also, soldiers, why are you so complicit in evil?
Greed and the evil that its unstymied growth inevitably breeds.
After reading things like this, I sometimes feel a measure of envy for those who believe in heaven and hell. To feel assured that this absolute piece of shit will someday get exactly what he deserves must be very comforting.
Trump certainly needs some fucking Dante’s inferno in his life.
How I imagine his end:
Only God can judge me.
Cool, he can judge me, too.
Back against the wall, donnieboy. I’ll let you decide - blindfold on or off.
is there any way we can make a de…
click - boom
Stfu.
Alright, people, the urinal is now open.
Add the American people are just going to furrow their brows and watch it happen.
You know, the people that let their kids get murdered at school so they can keep their guns, in case of “tyrants”.
The same assholes who say voting Dem to keep a maniac insurrectionist rapist trump out of office is the same as voting Dem because Kamala would destroy gaza? Those assholes?
Great distraction from… something… that still hasn’t been fully released
The rise of Shitler and the Turd Reich


